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February 14, 2017

When we put on the inaugural Systems We Love in December, we didn't really know what to expect. As it turns out, the event was terrific — and now we want to take the show on the road! We are pleased to announce that we're bringing Systems We Love to Minneapolis on March 16th!

February 6, 2017

I have long been a fan of RethinkDB, finding it to hit a sweet spot: developer friendliness (I <3 ReQL!) with Jepsen-grade robustness. This is the same ethos that we aspire to at Joyent, and that RethinkDB was born proprietary but later made open source made it feel like even more of a kindred spirit: I have leapt the chasm twice (first at Sun with what became illumos and then later at Joyent, where we open sourced our entire stack), so I felt I personally understood some of the arduous path that RethinkDB had walked.

February 2, 2017

Triton is the best place to run Docker images, but migrating from a world of VMs to a hostless Docker model requires translating some of the operations and thought processes around containers so that you and your containers can truly be free to run on bare metal and scale in the cloud.

January 27, 2017

Joyent's CTO Bryan Cantrill and Hart's President, Mo Alkady and Sr. Devops Engineer, Christopher Dickey talked about what both organizations are currently focused on, what challenges they are facing, and what technologies they are using to help solve those existing pain points.

January 26, 2017

No matter how we deploy our applications, managing secrets invokes the chicken-and-the-egg problem. Applications built with the Autopilot Pattern can be easily made to leverage secrets management services. Learn how to use Hashicorp Vault with Autopilot Pattern applications, with an example showcasing Jenkins CI.

January 24, 2017

Building the software that powers the cloud is exacting work. The path to building innovative solutions that simultaneously maximize both performance and reliability leaves no room for mistakes, but Joyent software engineer Richard Kiene explains how Joyent's approach has also been liberating and exhilarating for him.

January 19, 2017

An exploration of the Node.js journey that Joyent embarked on. Also, on overview of the various projects where Joyent uses Node.js. Furthermore, this post describes the benefits of choosing Node.js for microservices.

January 17, 2017

Learn how to add Triton CNS, a free and automated DNS solution which offers consistent and predictable addresses for changing infrastructure, to your Docker instances on Triton.

January 12, 2017

Learn microservices, Node.js, and containers by example using the provided application. This post walks through an example application that is split out into Node.js microservices running in Docker containers.

January 10, 2017

Introducing Triton CNS, a free and automated DNS solution which offers consistent and predictable addresses for changing infrastructure, for your instances on Triton.